Yechezkel 15:3-5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

³ Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? Or will men take a yated (peg) of it to hang any vessel thereon?

⁴ Hinei, it is cast into the eish for fuel; the eish devoureth both the ends of it, and the middle of it is charred. Is it fit for any melachah (work)?

⁵ Hinei, when it was tamim (whole), it was fit for no work; how much less shall it be fit yet for any work, when the eish hath devoured it, and it is charred?